Endpoint Operations Management Agent Plug-in Development Kit The agent gathers all the data from resources and generally communicates with the resource. Using the plug-in, the agent can: Auto-discover resources Collect resource metrics The server manages metadata, including Platform, server, and service resource types and how the plug-ins targeted resources map to the nventory model The configuration schema for each resource. Technica|。 Overview vRealize Operations Manager plug-ins are self-contained jar or xml files that are deployed on both the server and every agent that you want to run the plug-in. Every plug-in contains, at a minimum, an XML descriptor, which is either a standalone. xml file or embedded in the. jar file Plug-in Implementations Consider measurement, control, and so on, as types of plug-ins. These types of plug-ins can be created for any type of object You write different implementations of plug-in types, depending on the type of object and how it communicates and presents its data. The different implementations are JMX SQL SNMP Using Support Classes to simplify a plug-in vRealize Operations Manager includes a number of support classes that you can invoke in your own plug-ins to abstract and simplify its construction vRealize Operations Manager provides the following support classes Table 1-1. rEalize Operations Manager Support classes When to Invoke the Support Class qmail, Sendmail, Sybase SNMP Squid, Cisco IOS JMX JBoss, WLS, WAS, ActiveMQ, Jetty JDBC MySQL, Postgre SQL, Oracle To gather database system tables metricsThe agent gathers all the data from resources and generally communicates with the resource. Using the plug-in, the agent can: n Auto-discover resources n Collect resource metrics The server manages metadata, including: n Platform, server, and service resource types and how the plug-in's targeted resources map to the inventory model. n The configuration schema for each resource. Technical Overview vRealize Operations Manager plug-ins are self-contained .jar or .xml files that are deployed on both the server and every agent that you want to run the plug-in. Every plug-in contains, at a minimum, an XML descriptor, which is either a standalone .xml file or embedded in the .jar file. Plug-in Implementations Consider measurement, control, and so on, as types of plug-ins. These types of plug-ins can be created for any type of object. You write different implementations of plug-in types, depending on the type of object and how it communicates and presents its data. The different implementations are: n Script n JMX n SQL n SNMP Using Support Classes to Simplify a Plug-in vRealize Operations Manager includes a number of support classes that you can invoke in your own plug-ins to abstract and simplify its construction. vRealize Operations Manager provides the following support classes: Table 1‑1. vRealize Operations Manager Support Classes Category Support Classes When to Invoke the Support Class Scripting qmail, Sendmail, Sybase SNMP Squid, Cisco IOS JMX JBoss, WLS, WAS, ActiveMQ, Jetty JDBC MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle To gather database system tables metrics Endpoint Operations Management Agent Plug-in Development Kit VMware, Inc. 6